Awards

CDS students bag the Best Poster Award at Siemens healthineers – CDS Workshop on AI in Precision Medicine
- 8 Aug 24

Ms. Pon Deepika P was awarded the first prize for the poster titled, “Deep learning based segmentation of Lacunes from Brain MRI Volumes” and Mr. Sudhanshu Pandey bagged the second prize for the poster titled, “Automated Needle Segmentation in Ultrasound Guided Biopsy”. Honorable mention: “Quantifying uncertainty and confidence in classification” by Joel Jeffrey, Project Associate, […]

 
Ph.D student Abhipsa Basu receives the 2024 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship – India
- 24 Jul 24

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. proudly announces the launch of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2024-2025 program for selected Indian universities. Each winning team (up to 2 students and 1 faculty member) will receive a financial award for the academic year 2024-25, plus assignment of a Qualcomm researcher(s) as a mentor to facilitate close interaction with Qualcomm. More info.

 
PhD student Shubham Kumar Goswami won the Best Poster Award at CHTC 2024, IIT Hyderabad
- 17 Jul 24

Congratulations to Shubham Kumar Goswami, a PhD candidate from the FLAME Lab at the CDS department, for winning the Best Poster Award at the recently concluded CHTC conference from June 28th to 29th, 2024, at IIT Hyderabad. Shubham, along with co-authors Vidyesh Dapse and Konduri Aditya, received the award for their work titled “A scalable […]

 
PhD Student J Rishi selected as a TCS Research Scholar (2024-2028)
- 9 Jul 24

Ph.D. Student, J. Rishi, has been awarded the prestigious TCS Research Scholarship for the 2024-2028 cycle. Rishi works in the QUEST Lab and focuses on developing innovative approaches to Physics-Informed Generative AI models for climate system predictions. His selection as a TCS Research Scholar recognizes the potential impact of his work in this cutting-edge field. […]

 
PhD student Prashanthi recognized as one of the MLCommons rising stars
- 22 Jun 24

Prashanthi S K, a PhD candidate from the DREAM: Lab at the CDS Department of IISc has been selected as one the MLCommons Rising Stars 2024. She is the first student from India to be recognized through this initiative. MLCommons is an AI consortium led by global organizations like Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, AMD, etc. to […]

 
Students selected for the Reliance Foundation Scholarship
- 18 Jun 24

Congratulations to Surya Neelakandan (MTech student in FLAME Lab), Parvesh Barak (MTech student in ATCG Lab) and Sudhanshu Pandey (MTech student in MIG Lab) for being selected to receive the Reliance Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship (2023-24). They are among the 100 postgraduate students pursuing various degree programmes across India who have been selected. More info. Surya […]

 
Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan awarded CSIR-ASPIRE research funding
- 16 Jun 24

Congratulations to Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan for receiving the CSIR-ASPIRE research funding. After a rigorous review process, 300 women scientists across India were selected to receive research grants under the CSIR- ASPIRE scheme. These results were announced by the Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh on June 16.

 
CDS students win Best Student Presentation Awards at the EECS Symposium
- 10 Apr 24

Congratulations to CDS students for securing Best Student Presentation Awards at the 15th EECS Research Students Symposium

 
Dr. Danish awarded the Schmidt AI2050 Early Career Fellowship!
- 4 Mar 24

Danish Pruthi, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), IISc, has been selected as an AI2050 Early Career Fellow, announced by Schmidt Sciences. He joins the second cohort of 19 AI2050 Early Career Fellows who will pursue bold and multidisciplinary research in artificial intelligence (AI) for societal benefit across four countries, […]

 
Prof. Venkatesh Babu honored as a Senior Member by AAAI
- 27 Feb 24

Prof. Venkatesh Babu has been recognized and honored as a Senior Member by AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)!

 
 
Dr. Chirag Jain receives India Alliance DBT-Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship
- 22 Jan 24

Congratulations to Dr. Chirag Jain for getting awarded with the India Alliance  Intermediate Fellowship for five years. The Fellowship recognises outstanding young scientists in the biomedical and health sciences who wish to establish an independent laboratory with a high-quality research programme in India. Read more here https://www.indiaalliance.org/recently-recommended-awardees

 
Jogendra Nath Kundu receives 2023 IKDD Doctoral Dissertation in Data Science Runner-up award
- 7 Jan 24

Congratulations Jogendra Nath Kundu, for receiving the 2023 IKDD Doctoral Dissertation in Data Science Runner-up award.

 
Jogendra Nath Kundu receives the ACM India Honorable Mention Dissertation Award
- 30 Dec 23

Jogendra Nath Kundu received the Honorable Mention Award for 2023 for his dissertation titled “Self-supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for Computer Vision Tasks.” Each year, ACM India recognizes the best doctoral dissertations in computing from an academic institution in India. Jogendra’s dissertation makes significant and timely contributions to unsupervised domain adaptation and self-supervised learning techniques for structured prediction […]

 
Multiple awards won at IEEE HiPC Conference 2023
- 25 Dec 23

CDS researchers received three prestigious awards at the recently concluded IEEE HiPC 2023 conference held in Goa.  Best paper award – Koushik Sen, Sathish Vadhiyar, PN Vinayachandran for the paper titled “Strategies for fast I/O throughput in large-scale climate modelling applications“. Koushik Sen is a former MTech (CDS) student. Best SRS poster award – Shubham […]

 
CDS Biomedia Lab Students Win Best Poster Awards
- 15 Dec 23

Biomedia lab students win best poster awards at Indo-Norwegian collaboration in Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (INCAPS) project closure meeting held on December 15, 2023.Congratulations to the winners! Best Poster Award Winner: Mr. H.R. Shreyas (M.Tech. (CDS) Student) Title of the Poster: Class Activation Map-based Weakly supervised Hemorrhage Segmentation using Resnet-LSTM in Non-Contrast Computed Tomography images Best […]

 
CDS PhD students awarded Prime Minister Research Fellowship in Aug 2023 Cycle
- 7 Dec 23

Three CDS PhD students were recently awarded the Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) (Aug 2023 Cycle) Congratulations to all the awardees!

 
Dr. Phani Motamarri and his research group named among the recipients of the prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize for 2023
- 22 Nov 23

The prestigious Gordon Bell Prize is awarded each year internationally by ACM to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing (HPC). An eight-member team from the University of Michigan, Indian Institute of Science and Oak Ridge National Lab was named as the winner of the 2023 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, “Large-Scale Materials Modeling […]

 
Intel Research Fellowship awarded to Ghanshyam Chandra
- 25 Aug 23

Congratulations to Ghanshyam Chandra, CDS PhD student from ATCG Lab, for being awarded the Intel Research Fellowship during the year 2023-24. The fellowship has been offered for his 1-year project titled “Scalable Algorithms for Pangenome Graph Generation”.

 
Dr. Phani Motamarri and his research group selected as finalists for the 2023 ACM Gordon Bell Prize
- 10 Aug 23

Congratulations to Dr. Phani Motamarri and his research group for their selection as finalists for the 2023 ACM Gordon Bell Prize! The team, along with researchers from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, developed a computational framework that enables large-scale material modelling with quantum accuracy while attaining an unprecedented performance of […]

 
Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan selected for the India Alliance (Wellcome Trust -DBT) Early Career Fellowship
- 26 Jul 23

Congratulations to Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan on being selected for the India Alliance (Wellcome Trust -DBT) Early Career Fellowship for her project titled: “Development and evaluation of Imaging-based biomarkers for quantitative assessment of Vascular Cognitive Impairment using Artificial Intelligence” This fellowship provides a unique opportunity for promising early-career researchers to carry out high-quality biomedical research and has […]

 
CDS students bag Best Presentation Awards at EECS Symposium 2023
- 6 Apr 23

The following students won the Best Poster Awards at the 14th EECS Research Students Symposium, held on 3-4 April, 2023- Thivin AnandhPhD CDS, IISc Rishub PariharPhD CDS, IISc

 
CDS Students win the 1st prize at Genomics Hackathon
- 25 Mar 23

Congratulations to the @cdsiisc student team for winning the 1st prize at Genomics Hackathon organized by @CBR_IISc @iiscbangalore.

 
CDS Ph.D. Students Receive Best Poster Awards at Workshop on Medical Image Computing 2023
- 2 Mar 23

Naveen Paluru and Vaddadi Venkatesh (Ph.D. students of MIG) have won the best poster awards at Workshop on Medical Image Computing 2023 held on February 24-25, 2023.  Congratulations to the winners!

 
Soumalya Nandi from CDS M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) program receives Motorola Medal
- 27 Feb 23

Congratulations to Soumalya for receiving Motorola Medal after graduating from CDS M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) program in 2022 with the highest CGPA and minimum project grade ‘A’.